Subject: Re: Retrieving names from global addressbook

From: Allen R Sparks <[email-masked]>
Date: 31 Dec 1996 00:07:42 -0900

[email-masked] (Vashti) writes:

> 
> It seems that pine accesses addresses from the global addressbook based on
> the nickname.  In other words, non-unique names seems to prevent me from
> retrieving the address I want from the addressbook.  Is there some other
> way i can set up my addressbook or do all of my nicknames have to be
> unique

All your nicknames have to be unique.  Think of the addressbook as a
as a collection of records in a database, with the nickname as the
key field.

Another feature that I like is with distribution lists is, you can
enter in nicknames as the member of that distribution, instead of the
full email address.

That almost makes our database relational.
   === Al